Strawman: eliminating debdiffs

Matthew Paul Thomas mpt at canonical.com
Thu Oct 16 14:27:50 BST 2008


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Colin Watson wrote on 13/10/08 23:56:
> 
> On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 07:30:21PM +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
>> 
>> Colin Watson wrote:
>...
>>>     https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugs?field.has_patch=on is
>>>     hopeless because it consists of 25 pages and has lots of
>>>     duplicated bug numbers; I'm never going to skim through that
>>>     looking for things I'm an expert on.

<http://launchpad.net/bugs/284369> (increasing the batch size)
<http://launchpad.net/bugs/1357> (showing each bug only once)

>...
> No matter what the size, though, I find that the thing I really miss
> from +packagebugs is some indicator of the rate of change. A package
> with 100 bugs but no new ones for the last year is much less interesting
> than a package with 20 bugs 15 of which were filed in the last week.

Reported. <http://launchpad.net/bugs/284400>

> livejournal.com has an interesting trick for this (perhaps also
> elsewhere); when you follow links to the comments on people's journals,
> those links have the number of comments in the URL (e.g. "&nc=4" if
> there are four comments; that parameter is ignored on the server side).
> This lets you quickly skim a page every day or so and tell from the
> visited/unvisited link colours in your browser whether there are any new
> comments. Do other people think this would be a useful addition to
> +packagebugs? I think it would really sell it for me.
>...

Reported. <http://launchpad.net/bugs/284359>

Cheers
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Matthew Paul Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/
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